Title from e-book title screen (viewed October 16, 2007).
GMD: electronic resource.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Political geography of Ireland -- Ulster -- Munster -- Leinster -- Connacht -- Physical features of Ireland -- Cartography -- Ireland and its cartographers -- Military developments -- Strategic considerations -- Battle sites -- Continental interventions -- The Viking invasions -- The Norman invasion -- Norman consolidation -- The Bruce invasion -- The Nine Years War -- The 1640s: the Confederation and Cromwell -- Stuart and Orange -- The Irish militia -- The 1798 rising -- The 1916 rising -- The War of Independence (Anglo-Irish War) -- The Civil War -- Ireland and the Second World War -- Paramilitary activity: 1926-2004 -- Politics -- Ireland before the Normans -- Fourteenth-century Ireland -- The great families of Ireland -- The Pale: 1300-1596 -- The development of the Irish parliament -- The Irish parliament: 1613-1800 -- O'Connell and Young Ireland -- Irish representation at Westminster: 1800-1918 -- Labour in Ireland: 1907-23 -- Political affiliations in Dail Eireann: 1918-2002 -- Government in Ireland -- Religion -- The coming of Christianity -- Medieval ecclesiastical Ireland -- Post-Reformation Ireland -- The dissolution of the monasteries -- Dissenters in Ireland -- Religious affiliations -- Catholicism in crisis -- The Irish abroad -- Fourth-century expansion -- Irish influence abroad: 500-800 -- Irish colleges in Europe -- Destinations of the emigrants -- Irish Catholicism abroad -- The Irish in Britain -- The Irish in the Empire: soldiers and administrators -- The Irish in America -- America and Irish politics -- International relations -- Ireland and the European Union -- Land -- Tudor plantations -- Plantations of James I -- Cromwellian land confiscations -- The transfer of land ownership: 1603-1778 -- Pre-Famine agriculture -- The transfer of land ownership: 1870-1916 -- Agriculture in the twentieth century -- Infrastructure -- Early infrastructure -- Infrastructure in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- Modern transport -- Telecommunications -- The economy -- Medieval trade -- Tudor trade -- Seventeenth-century trade -- Eighteenth-century trade -- Pre-Famine trade -- Pre-Famine industry -- Trade and industry in independent Ireland: 1920-90 -- The Celtic Tiger -- Social change -- Urbanization -- Towns: 1841-2002 -- Population changes: 1841-51 -- Population changes: 1841-2002 -- Emigration: 1881-2002 -- Education: 1800-2004 -- Irish-speakers: 1851-2004 -- The status of women: 1841-2004 -- Secularization of Irish society: 1960-2000 -- Immigration: 1921-2004 -- Sport -- Northern Ireland -- Religious divisions -- Government: 1921-69 -- Searching for peace -- Killings: 1969-2005 -- Literature -- Modern Irish literature.